Today, Bing released a detailed overview of its Page Zero experience, a new search feature that delivers deep links directly from the search box with shortcuts to relevant information associated with the search term. According to the announcement, the new feature gives “best”…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: When It Comes To Google, Microsoft’s Ballmer Is Still Fighting Old Battles With Old Tactics I’ve watched Microsoft fight Google in search for a very…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

BlackBerry trumpeted its intention to deliver the long-awaited Android and iOS versions of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service this weekend, and so fans around the world eagerly awaited the mobile software’s debut. But debut the apps didn’t, at least not as intended and not for the vast majority of expectant fans.
As of right now, BlackBerry’s BBM apps for iOS and Android are nowhere to be seen, after the iOS version’s staged rollout of midnight local time at each country around the world got put on hold somewhere around India, and the Android version was a no-show altogether…

Hashtags are amazing. Not just because they offer such a clever way of grouping content, searching and adding context. Not even because they were used on IRC long before Twitter even thought of. It is because they have invaded the public consciousness in an irrevocable way that will continue to affect our world for generations to come.
Think about it, when was the last time you made a hashtag reference and someone didn’t know what you were talking about? What do you think of every time you see a # sign?
How many websites are now using this format, including sites that were straight up against the idea like Facebook?
But for all the attention it has gotten, we have been remarkably careless with our hashtags…

The way to be perceived by Google as the best is, in fact, to be the best. You have to do that consistently, and often over a long period of time to get there, but you should be able to build your traffic, reputation, and business along the way.

This week I am happy to feature a coolest tool in our tools column: Analyze Social Signals and Google Authorship for the List of URLs – Free ToolIt’s simple to use but has some awesome functionality: provide the list of URLs, wait a bit and enjoy:
Page-specific social media numbers:Number of Facebook shares, comments and comments (as well as total) for each one
Number of Tweets
Number of Google plus onesThe tool will also find a verified author of each page and even find that author on Twitter, Facebook and Google plus…

One of the new iPhone 5S features we’re most excited about is the camera. Its new burst mode lets you take 10 photos in one second, and videos can be recorded in slow motion
We tested out the smartphone’s slow-mo chops in the video, above. Routine tasks — including watering plants, popping balloons and bees gathering pollen — just look so much more compelling in slow motion
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Benefits of SEO Services beyond Search Engine Rankings is a post by SEO expert Matthew Rongey. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.If you go anywhere online today looking for information about internet marketing, chances are you will see this debate: “Is SEO dead?” On one side you have people saying that Google has gotten so strict that all SEO services are now a waste of time and money…

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11 Amazing Tools For Generating Blog Topic Ideas is a post by SEO expert Shay Wright. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.A blog has no doubt become an integral part of any successful website these days. If you own a website and haven’t started a blog for it yet, it’s time to start. If you have been hesitant to start a blog (or don’t update your blog regularly) because you just can’t think of any good topics to write about, that’s not a good excuse…

SEO.com Online Content Collective, July 22, 2013 is a post by SEO expert Andy Eliason. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.Have you ever asked someone for a bit of information, which they happily provide, but then remember something else that you probably ought to know? Of course, that will then lead them to think of something else that’s just as important, and then to something else after that…

Google launched its $35 Chromecast device today that allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform. In addition, Google is also launching the Google Cast SDK for developers on iOS, Android and Chrome, which will allow them to enable their apps to stream right to their users TVs. The new SDK, which is officially in beta (or “preview,” as Google calls it), will be available later today…

The moment that everyone has been waiting for is finally here! Today, Google announced that the new integration of AdWords for the Google Analytics is officially here. Finally, everyone who has been having a hard time trying to integrate their Google Adwords account with their Google Analytics account are in luck. This is because Google is officially offering more effective support in regards to linking the two accounts together…

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Social networks face an uphill struggle when competing against Facebook. Few networks know this quite as well as Zurker. Now eighteen months old, the site welcomes a growing number of members, but has faced a serious struggle simply to get the word out.
You can read my original piece on Zurker, written in February of last year. Then, the social network was less than two months old, and offered its members a unique proposition: own the network to which you belong…

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I make a lot of jokes about Bing, I have to admit it. The gist is that it is a wannabe search engine that will never make it as the number one choice. Unfair? Probably, but I would argue that 1) I don’t care, and 2) It is still the truth. Besides, it is not like Bing will ever see this…it couldn’t find it! See what I did there?
But it is really only right of me to give Google the same shots…

The first steps of commerce take place within the search results. Give consumers a better sense of offers and pricing with your title tags. By exposing more information up front, sites can better align with the right consumer and get more clicks.

Over the various updates Facebook has moved from a simple communication tool to something much larger, allowing users to have more control over their accounts. This includes their friends feed, which only shows a certain number of posts from friends that you can specify. All of this is worked out using EdgeRank, a site-specific algorithm that filters through posts to decide whether or not they are important enough to match the specifications you have given each user or page…

Why Your Business Should Be On Foursquare Now! is a post by SEO expert Darin Berntson. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.This is not your parents Foursquare.
Remember the days playing this in school? Foursquare means business now!
Nor is this another rendition of Kick-The-Can!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of my favorite SoLoMo (Social Local Mobile) apps out there, and as a business it should be one of yours too! Let me ask you something…
Do you have a local business that thrives on needing new walk-in customers, and a business that values, more than life itself, repeat customers?
If you answered yes, and you better have, Foursquare is an application that you should deploy and use to help market your business immediately…

At the Webby Awards this week, Steve Wilhite, father of the Graphics Interchange Format, used his five-word acceptance speech to end a popular debate: It’s pronounced “JIF,” not “GIF.” Unsurprisingly, this outraged many Internet users.
SEE ALSO: More Sunday ComicsIn this comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech illustrate a different position — that neither is wrong, exactly…

Google has recently released a new analytics tool to help businesses know just how customers decide to purchase from their website and how long that takes.
What Google has released is called the Customer Journey to Online Purchase and this new interactive tool is revolutionary in how it collects customer habits to better help you serve your business and customer needs.
The tool describes in great detail how customers interact online…

Google conversational search rolled out on the new version of Chrome this week. While the “OK Google” search prompt we heard about at the I/O event is not yet available, Google is attempting to have relevant conversations with users.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Android Bathroom Signs: Source: Google+ Bike To Work Day At Google Germany:…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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If you learn one thing from this video, it’s that you should never bring a Ouija board to jury duty.
If you learn two things, it’ll probably be about giraffe pee. If you learn all five things, great. Do you want a medal or something?Enjoy this week’s episode of Reddit Facts, and be sure to subscribe to Mashable’s YouTube channel for this and other fun weekly shows.
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Understandably when you search for something online there are those websites that you just don’t want popping up in your results. It would be fantastic if you had some type of control over that no matter what you were searching for.
There once was a feature on Google when you searched for something that would let you block certain websites. This is no longer the case as they have done away with your ability to do that automatically…

Expanding internationally is extremely challenging.you have to deal with different time zones, languages, and cultures. Google+ Hangouts can help break down the barriers separating you from your clients, customers, or your own staff.

There’s a gold rush under way as brands allocate big budgets to build and optimize their presence in emerging search and discovery channels. How can SEOs stake their claim in this new mobile, local, social, and content marketing territory?

Pinterest is quickly becoming one of the most popular social media sites ever made. It is unique in its design and was the first true hit for the social photo format. Imitators have come and gone, and many others exist with less success. Even the demographic is shifting from being almost entirely women to including quite a few men, and marketers have been going nuts with the possibilities of using the site to their advantage…

The two terms sound incredibly similar, which gives the mistaken impression that they must be the same.
I see many people getting confused when you are talking about name anchors… “Is this what we need to build links for?”… Ugh, no.The two are used for different functions entirely, and they have different tags used to make them.
Link Anchor Text
The simplest way to explain that: anchor text = visible text of the link
For example, let’s say you were speaking about Google’s search engine…

For years Google was trying to break into the social media scene. They spent time, energy and funds into launching their own versions, which always managed to crash and burn almost as soon as they were released.
Most of us have witnessed these failures first hand, and if you want a refresher course just check out this helpful infographic that illustrated the many attempts. Google has not had the best track record, with their successes usually through purchasing already established sites like YouTube…

Google keeps integrating Google+ deeper into all of its products and today it’s Drive’s turn. When you open a file in Drive, you will now see the Google+ profile pictures of other viewers at the top of the document. Hovering over them brings up their Google+ card with their cover image and which Google+ circle you currently have them in. This, Google says, will make it easier to see who you are collaborating with on any given Drive document…

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Change can by terrifying. But great testing results can sometimes be a result of a series of bad or “failed” tests. Embrace test failures as a necessary part of the process. Only then will you have the courage to try, try again, and succeed.

Recently, I was asked to run an estimate of traffic opportunity for a multinational sports franchise in which I modeled their current global traffic against brand visibility growth opportunities. However, I also identified that to make the estimate relevant, I needed to quantify the traffic more…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

At the recent SXSW event, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam team, announced that Google’s Penguin algorithm updates would undergo some major changes in 2013. So take this as your official warning!
Cutts claimed that the Penguin algorithm update in 2013 is going to be so large that it is likely to be the most talked about algorithm update that Google makes all year. In fact, Cutts says that the search quality team has been working very diligently on this update which is going to be extremely significant to Google…

Did you know that the higher a site is listed in search results, the more traffic that site is likely to receive? If you’re a search marketer, or anyone with a dose of common sense, you do. But Microsoft had research conducted to yet again prove this point, in an attempt to influence the…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Bing has announced support for HTML5 pushState as a way to implement AJAX on a site in a way that enables Bing to crawl and index the URLs and content. As Google has supported this implementation since early 2012, site owners finally have an AJAX option that can be crawled and indexed by both major…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

T-Mobile is finally getting the iPhone 5— the last major carrier to do so.
The company announced during a press event in New York City on Tuesday the iPhone 5 is finally coming to T-Mobile, for a $99.99 down payment and $20 for each month (for 24 months). Although it will be available without a contract, customers can subscribe to its LTE network.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 4 can be purchased for a down payment of $14…

Google’s Universal Analytics aims to help you understand how customers interact with your business across devices, give insights into mobile app performance, and improve your ROI by helping you understand which channels drive the best results.

Many people wouldn’t think there is a link between SEO and videos on your website. In fact, the two are very much related. Especially with the popularity of YouTube, video is more important than ever in getting your message across. Search engine crawlers see multimedia elements on a webpage as more diverse, as opposed to just text, so this helps to boost your SEO efforts. Of course, the video description, tags, and title all need to keep your site’s SEO in mind, too…

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Our TV sets are getting bigger and bigger and with ever greater resolutions. But what if the screen isn’t enough anymore though? That’s the idea behind Microsoft’s latest idea, a technology that turns the room around your TV into an extension of it.
IllumiRoom uses a Kinect sensor and a projector “to blur the lines between on-screen content and the environment we live in allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds,” as Microsoft puts it the project’s official site…

This is perhaps the biggest search news to break so far in 2013! Google’s main rival in Russian, Yandex, has built a secret search engine for Facebook.
Yandex is Russia’s biggest search engine and has lent its support Facebook by producing a voice-activated visual search engine codenamed Wonder. According to TechCrunch, Wonder is a mobile app that allows people to ask what businesses friends have visited and what content they’ve consumed…

Developing a good hypothesis should always be informed by some degree of knowledge, irrespective of any certainty around what the outcome may be. Here is how you can create a hypothesis for your ad copy test and components to quickly improve it.

The phrase Big Data is everywhere. Not a day passes without the release of another report that describes the extent to which Big Data is influencing how we do business. But, what exactly is Big Data? What does Big Data mean in the context of digital marketing? How can we be more effective search…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Whether you call yourself an SEO, SEM, inbound marketer, online marketing specialist, or any one of a number of terms, your ultimate goal is the same: increasing sales or conversions for your clients. To do this, you need to bring a host of skill sets to bear. Sometimes, the skills of a historian come in handy.This thought crossed my mind after reading Mike Fleming’s excellent post for Search Engine Guide on the various professional an inbound marketer must, er, employ…

he Ten Commandments Of Pinterest is a post by SEO expert Hilary Biggart. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.Pinterest is escalating. If it isn’t part of your business internet marketing strategy, you could be falling behind. Don’t believe me? Here are some interesting statistics that make the case for Pinterest being a valuable asset for your internet marketing strategy: How about brand awareness? Pinterest users have increased 145% since January …

After the whole Insta-gate incident where we saw a lot of back and forth about whether Facebook-owned, popular photo sharing app Instagram was losing users, today a report has come out that claims user attrition at an even bigger target: Facebook itself.
According to an article in the Guardian, the social network lost some 600,000 users in December in the UK, the sixth-biggest market for Facebook by subscribers…

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In today’s world of instant gratification, with Twitter often scooping traditional news sources, we still turn to professional journalists for accurate, timely news, and confirmation of the events that transpired. While breaking news offers instant awareness, we…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The London Olympics were the #7 most popular search on Yahoo overall in 2012, Even Mckayla Maroney has to be impressed with that. Searchers were flipping and flying as high as Gabby Douglas for any official games coverage on Yahoo in 2012. Top Searches for 2012 Olympians On Yahoo! maria sharapova…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

While Yahoo’s market share continues to decline, Google and Bing hit all time highs in October. Changes in the market may be to blame, but it could be that fans are continuing to lose interest in Yahoo and other once popular search engines.
Here are the official figures:Google: 66.9% (66.7% in Sept 2012)
Bing: 16% (15.9% in Sept 2012)
Yahoo: 12.2% (no change from Sept 2012)
Ask: 3.2% (3.5% in Sept 2012)
AOL: 1…

Pope Benedict XVI has launched an official Twitter account with the handle @pontifex.

The move was announced in November, when a Vatican official said the Pope (or, more precisely, whoever handles his Twitter account) would be tweeting fairly infrequently, with his tweets “not veering far from his texts.”

The Pope’s account currently doesn’t have any tweets. It follows 7 other accounts, which are all versions of the same account in different languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, French and Arabic…

A variety of trends point toward a coming avalanche of mobile influence and spending as consumer behavior, marketers, and technology converge to create a perfect shopping storm. Retailers must prepare now or risk getting buried!

Technology is quickly disrupting one of the oldest industries in the country, fashion. And customization is at the heart of that, whether it’s personalized web fittings or Indie boutique pieces via Etsy or completely customized clothing. Bow & Drape, a company we met in Boston, is ready to rethink the way you shop for dresses.
In essence, Bow & Drape lets you start with a silhouette A line, drop-waist, or whatever and continue customizing from there…

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Semantic SEO is a fairly new Web marketing tactic that combines search engine optimization and semantic Web technology. Semantic SEO includes a focus on artificial intelligence to understand a user’s intent (i.e., the meaning of the query) in addition to the reliance on text, keywords and links in…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Search engine optimization is a critical part to any business marketing strategy, and it is important to keep up to date with all of the changes happening with the Google algorithm, as well as other search engines…

It’s been about six months since Bing unveiled its Social Sidebar, and the search engine is now testing a new format that drops the gray background and which shows more matching content from friends and social networks. Before & After Here’s an example of how the Social Sidebar…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

A ‘privacy notice’ that’s been virally spreading on Facebook, supposedly protecting one’s personal details and data from unauthorized copying, is fake.
The notice started spreading a few days after Facebook posted its new privacy guidelines, announcing it would let users comment on proposed changes to its governing documents, but not vote.
The text of the notice starts as follows: “In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, graphics, comics, paintings, photos and videos, etc…

Make no mistake, it’s vastly different from what Google claimed it would be. Just ask anyone who studies their Google Analytics data. When a signed-in user performs a Google search, the search engine encrypts the data; the search shows up in GA as not provided rather than a search for a particular keyword. If the number of not provided searches grows too high, SEOs and marketers can no longer tell what effect, if any, their marketing efforts are achieving…

Everyone wants more clicks, more conversions, better ROI, lower CPA, and phenomenal results for pennies. But be cautious when choosing a metric. Always keep your business goals in mind and translate them into a PPC metric that makes sense to you.

Google fans have one more reason to celebrate, and this time, it’s enough to knock the socks off even the most jaded internet user.
For certain customers in the Kansas City area, Google has launched Google Fiber , the internet connection to unseat all internet connections. Some people get excited when they get 20 or 30 MBPS speeds. Imagine getting 600-700 for a price comparable to that same old normal high-speed line…

Other than cleaning up the quality of the Google index what else could the objective of the Penguin updates be? Much like the icebergs that so often surround penguins, Google’s Penguin updates have much, much more going on below the surface.

Google will start offering Google Play music and movies to Google TV owners in the UK, Germany and France starting November 13, the company has announced.
Google previously announced the service will also be available in Canada and Australia on that date as well, but that hasn’t happened. Google has apologized for that announcement, adding it’s bringing Google Play to more countries “all the time…

Social media juggernaut Facebook has begun to test an exciting new service that will allow local, small businesses to offer free Wi-Fi to followers after checking in with the social network.
During this test, Facebook will supply the wireless routers to be used for the endeavor, though the businesses themselves will provide the Internet access. When Facebook users check into a particular location on Facebook, they will get a redirect to Facebook’s main business page, allowing them to continue to browse the Internet for no additional charges…

SEO Tips From Industry Experts: An Infographic And Ebook is a post by SEO expert iGoByDoc. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.
Recently, our friends at Hubspot reached out to me and asked if we would like to be a part of a new ebook they were putting together called SEO Tips From Industry Experts and of course I said absolutely, we would love to!
Our topic to cover was Mastering On-Page SEO and for this we had our VP of Client Services, Greg Shuey provide the content…

In a recently active Google Webmaster Help forum thread, Google’s Trends Analyst John Mueller warned webmasters that it will take more than a single tweak made to their website to have any positive impact on their Google ranking.
Google’s notoriously tough search engine algorithm forces users to keep finding different ways to optimize their websites in the hope of snagging that prized top ranking…

Priceline is a public company that owns several other travel brands, including Booking.com, Agoda.com, Cheaptickets.com, Rentalcars.com and a few other travel sites. You can now add leading travel search engine Kayak.com to that list. Priceline announced that it was buying the travel site for $1.8…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Anyone who works in interactive advertising can testify to the tedium that often accompanies even the seemingly-simplest of campaign changes. That’s the problem Google is trying to address in its latest AdWords feature bulk editing. The feature is being rolled out in a few accounts…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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